Dumb taxpayer-funded legal bloggers pen a 36-page manual outlining all the things Alternative für Deutschland should definitely absolutely not be allowed to do if they ever come to power
Dumb taxpayer-funded legal bloggers pen a 36-page manual outlining all the things Alternative für Deutschland should definitely absolutely not be allowed to do if they ever come to power
Every day I encounter yet another hamfisted pseudoacademic propaganda operation eagerly churning out oceans of text to shore up the German political establishment. The idea seems to be that with just enough whitepapers, bursting with just enough words, the situation might still be saved.
I am on a list that sends various academic papers. Topics include opposing Trump using Lenin modeling. It would all be amusing but their ideas don't stay on the fringe. Academics in Canada wrote a paper that keeping the mentally ill away from teaching positions for children was discriminatory. So, once again, children are to be sacrificed to fulfill the fetishes of adults. But these are symptoms of a very faulty operating system. Reading Kafka's The Trial, I don't see much difference between the storyline and the current reality in the West.
This is so parallel to U.S. taxpayers funding the National Institutes of "Health" and the National "Public" Radio propaganda machine that I can't even find it funny. Around the world people in "democracies" are taxed to pay for absurd, misleading and destructive projects like this that are contrary to their interests and well being because the Left has a death grip on institutions and the comfortable Right refuses to do anything about it. How to stop it? Thanks for the reminder Eugyppius.
Magazines and newspapers, even if they only exist in e-format, can apply for subsidies from the state (tax money). But only if the publication is judged to follow certain values.
No, not objectivity or impartialness or even correctness of its reporting.
It must demonstrate that it complies with our local equivalent of DEI/ESG, in how it reports the news.
Kicker: we've had this system for generations. This is the reason SvD (Svenska Dagbladet, "Schwedishes Tageblatt") which is the high-end morning paper here, can receive hundreds of millions of crowns in subsidies every year, despite being owned by multibillion-corporation Schibsted.
Meanwhile, Samnytt, short for Samhällsnytt ("Gesellschaft Nachrichten", roughly translated) which is a small paper, run by about half a dozen people, gets zero.
Reason being, Samnytt doesn't pixelate the faces of migrant criminals. To not do so violates human rights.
Mussolini would be so proud of Germany (and Sweden): state, unions, party, church, business and banks - all incorporated into a single unit. As would the french founders of the idea of synarchism (french fascism, more or less).
Can't all of political philosophy be boiled down to "we'll do anything to keep the other guys from winning?"
And--when you graduate too many people with no useful life talent, the only way to ensure continued revenue stream for universities is for governments to hire their product. Those graduates will do everything possible to ensure they aren't culled by an unfriendly change in political environment.
My two paragraphs are related of course. The guys writing all those books on political philosophy have no useful life talents either.
If the Verfassungsblog believes that Texas (where I live) is under the control of "authoritarian populists", they are so ignorant that they should not be believed in anything else that they say.
Greg Abbot (our governor) is hardly populist and certainly not authoritarian. The state is run largely by and for the interest of the oil companies, which of course are also major employers with broad popular support. Although we've had a few sops to the people, especially through entirely reasonable and unfortunately limited action with respect to the border, during covid days Texas happily had masks mandates and more for six months. And although the governor made a lot of noises about preventing vaccine mandates, many doctors or nurses that wanted to reject the covid vaccines were in fact either fired or forced to take it. The state did not intervene, even though the people here did not support these mandates.
eugyppuis, the reunification is not beginning to resemble a neocolonial project: it was a carpetbagging project from the start! The parallels with the US Reconstruction are obvious and the persistence to this day of a deep North-South divide in US politics adumbrates the future of Germany.
“ The AfD must be deprived of any chance to influence the makeup of the judiciary.”
The irony of it all. Germany and your “lib’s” must be the doppelgänger of ours. Here, our Leftist party, the Democrats, decry how Trump politicized our Supreme Court. There is now a 6-3 split between the Conservatives on the Court and the Leftists. Their proposed “solution” is to expand the Court (as soon as the Democrats obtain a favorable majority again in Congress) by 4 more Justices. Funny number, 4, just what’s needed to overrule the current 6 “conservative” Justices on split decisions. Seems the Leftist definition of democracy depends solely upon who’s in the majority control in the Federal government.
I am on a list that sends various academic papers. Topics include opposing Trump using Lenin modeling. It would all be amusing but their ideas don't stay on the fringe. Academics in Canada wrote a paper that keeping the mentally ill away from teaching positions for children was discriminatory. So, once again, children are to be sacrificed to fulfill the fetishes of adults. But these are symptoms of a very faulty operating system. Reading Kafka's The Trial, I don't see much difference between the storyline and the current reality in the West.
This is so parallel to U.S. taxpayers funding the National Institutes of "Health" and the National "Public" Radio propaganda machine that I can't even find it funny. Around the world people in "democracies" are taxed to pay for absurd, misleading and destructive projects like this that are contrary to their interests and well being because the Left has a death grip on institutions and the comfortable Right refuses to do anything about it. How to stop it? Thanks for the reminder Eugyppius.
Sounds like here in Sweden, 100%.
Magazines and newspapers, even if they only exist in e-format, can apply for subsidies from the state (tax money). But only if the publication is judged to follow certain values.
No, not objectivity or impartialness or even correctness of its reporting.
It must demonstrate that it complies with our local equivalent of DEI/ESG, in how it reports the news.
Kicker: we've had this system for generations. This is the reason SvD (Svenska Dagbladet, "Schwedishes Tageblatt") which is the high-end morning paper here, can receive hundreds of millions of crowns in subsidies every year, despite being owned by multibillion-corporation Schibsted.
Meanwhile, Samnytt, short for Samhällsnytt ("Gesellschaft Nachrichten", roughly translated) which is a small paper, run by about half a dozen people, gets zero.
Reason being, Samnytt doesn't pixelate the faces of migrant criminals. To not do so violates human rights.
Mussolini would be so proud of Germany (and Sweden): state, unions, party, church, business and banks - all incorporated into a single unit. As would the french founders of the idea of synarchism (french fascism, more or less).
"... one only recognises abuses when your opponent is in a position to take advantage of them."
Power for me but not for thee!
Here's a little dictionary of social research slang to explain what it's about:
- qualitative – we have no quantitative data, or what we have is non-representative
- scenario analysis – making s**t up
- iterative – stirring said s** over until you come up with something remotely plausible
They're in fact admitting they're making propaganda.
Can't all of political philosophy be boiled down to "we'll do anything to keep the other guys from winning?"
And--when you graduate too many people with no useful life talent, the only way to ensure continued revenue stream for universities is for governments to hire their product. Those graduates will do everything possible to ensure they aren't culled by an unfriendly change in political environment.
My two paragraphs are related of course. The guys writing all those books on political philosophy have no useful life talents either.
I had already a lot of fun with these sick idiots. Result: I'm blocked.
The Thuringen Project just shows the Iron Law of Woke Projection never misses.
If the Verfassungsblog believes that Texas (where I live) is under the control of "authoritarian populists", they are so ignorant that they should not be believed in anything else that they say.
Greg Abbot (our governor) is hardly populist and certainly not authoritarian. The state is run largely by and for the interest of the oil companies, which of course are also major employers with broad popular support. Although we've had a few sops to the people, especially through entirely reasonable and unfortunately limited action with respect to the border, during covid days Texas happily had masks mandates and more for six months. And although the governor made a lot of noises about preventing vaccine mandates, many doctors or nurses that wanted to reject the covid vaccines were in fact either fired or forced to take it. The state did not intervene, even though the people here did not support these mandates.
eugyppuis, the reunification is not beginning to resemble a neocolonial project: it was a carpetbagging project from the start! The parallels with the US Reconstruction are obvious and the persistence to this day of a deep North-South divide in US politics adumbrates the future of Germany.
Anyone watch Redlettermedia's Best of the Worst on YouTube, reviewing terrible VHS tapes? Eugyppius is like Best of the Worst for politics.
Interesting, "authoritarian populist" is almost a contradiction in terms. See how much they have to destroy language to get their ideologies to work!!
Just substitute AfD for Republican or MAGA and you have the Democratic playbook for the US.
“ The AfD must be deprived of any chance to influence the makeup of the judiciary.”
The irony of it all. Germany and your “lib’s” must be the doppelgänger of ours. Here, our Leftist party, the Democrats, decry how Trump politicized our Supreme Court. There is now a 6-3 split between the Conservatives on the Court and the Leftists. Their proposed “solution” is to expand the Court (as soon as the Democrats obtain a favorable majority again in Congress) by 4 more Justices. Funny number, 4, just what’s needed to overrule the current 6 “conservative” Justices on split decisions. Seems the Leftist definition of democracy depends solely upon who’s in the majority control in the Federal government.
This is Orwellian beyond belief. Do any of these people even listen to themselves?
That was a rhetorical question, because obviously they don't.
How nice of the Max Planck Institute & pals to write a playbook for the AfD. 😁